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The Wuhan dialect (simplified Chinese: 武 汉 话; traditional Chinese: 武 漢 話, local pronunciation: [u⁴²xan¹³xua³⁵]; pinyin: Wǔhànhuà), also known as the Hankou dialect after the former town of Hankou, belongs to the Wu–Tian branch of Southwest Mandarin spoken in Wuhan, Tianmen and surrounding areas in Hubei, China.
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Language and writing are important carriers of culture. Language proficiency is a fundamental element of cultural literacy, and promoting Mandarin is a key part of quality education in schools across China. Information technology is one of the indicators of a nation's scientific and technological development.
Wuhan [a] is the capital of Hubei, China. With a population of over eleven million, it is the most populous city in Hubei and the seventh-most-populous city in China. [15] It is also one of the nine national central cities. [16] Wuhan historically served as a busy city port for commerce and trading with some crucial influences on Chinese history.
Southwestern Mandarin: Chengdu dialect, Guiyang dialect, Liuzhou dialect, Wuhan dialect Lower Yangtze Mandarin : Nanjing dialect , Yangzhou dialect Jin : Taiyuan dialect, Xinzhou dialect
Knowing the local dialect is of considerable social benefit, and most Chinese who permanently move to a new area will attempt to pick up the local dialect. Learning a new dialect is usually done informally through a process of immersion and recognizing sound shifts. Generally the differences are more pronounced lexically than grammatically.
The remaining 894 sites were generally chosen to be representative of rural dialects of their county, so dialect islands were omitted. [ 7 ] A questionnaire was compiled, to elicit the pronunciation of 425 characters representing common Chinese morphemes, the local term for 470 items and the local form of 110 grammatical forms. [ 8 ]
Several derivational affixes have also been identified, but the language lacks inflection, and indicated grammatical relationships using word order and grammatical particles. [16] Middle Chinese was the language used during Northern and Southern dynasties and the Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties (6th–10th centuries CE